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The Buzzword Bingo forum is a place to post examples of ludicrous,
convoluted and meaningless buzzwords and marketing drivel dreamed up by those seeking to sound
more important and meaningful than they actually are.

We are developers, which means our job is to simplify complicated and ill-expressed requirements
in order to produce something elegant and useful. If you want to impress us then please just tell it
to us straight. The less pre-processing we have to do the more we will be interested.

Last time I wrote front end stuff I recall OS producers having intensely complex style guides for "look and feel compliance."

Unless of course you're writing for Linux, in which case "native look and feel" means "throw a bunch of poorly aligned crap at the screen and say 'well its like, open source man, change it yourself' whenever anybody complains."

I've always been a fan of adding a touch of radioactive isotope so I can be sure the snake oil makes it into the patient. Unfortunately, I don't get to make decisions like that. I simply implement them.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking

'Engaging' used to mean to me that the fire control officer had selected a green dot on a radar and that we were going to point radars at the plane that caused the dot and prepared to launch a missile at it.

At least artificial intelligence already is superior to natural stupidity

It means anything but informative: annoying, irritating, embarrassing, deceitful, rude, stupid... but it's a little more than that.
Basically it means to stand out from the other annoying, irritating, embarrassing, deceitful, rude, stupid... adverts.

So you mean kind of like "We need to make this so Apple like, the whole world will be interested"?

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DDEthel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

It's more about capturing someones attention rather than their interest. The "free set of steak knifes" approach. Once viewers are aware, they move on to the next con job.

When I left that industry, time shifting was a big deal in TV. Make sure your target demographic(s) see the ad x number of times and then as they fast-forward through pre-recorded programming, the ad still "engages" them subliminally.

They got software that does that but it's based on ratings. Ratings are provided by the networks and naturally bias.